Words to Avoid in Your Resume

June 11, 2007

  • Avoid negative words such as hate, dislike, unhappy. Bah hum bug – who wants to hear negativity. Accentuate the positive!
  • Self love is good; but personal pronouns (I, we, my, me) in resumes are bad. While you do need to highlight your accomplishments, they will be overshadowed if your text reads that it is all about me…me…me…meeeeeeee!
  • If you’ve ever worked for the government you are aware of their fondness for abbreviations and acronyms. However, IMHO, IYKWIM the general public is not hip to that jargon (in my humble opinion, if you know what I mean!). So unless it is specific to the job you are applying for use real words - e.g. IT abbreviations for an IT job is ok but IT abbreviations when applying for a non IT job is not… because they probably won’t know what you’re talking about.
  • Your school English teacher loved to see the use of prepositions and adjectives (an, also, the, because, very, highly).
  • Watch for run-on sentences. Do not confuse job hunting with creative writing! Use sparingly; remember write tight, factual text.

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